What is the largest area of polders in the Netherlands?

Answer 1

Former bodies of water like lakes where they reclaimed the land by pumping out the water. The entire province of Flevoland is a polder. It used to be a sea. The sea became a lake when they build a large dike called the afsluitdijk. Later they surrounded a large part of the water with dikes and pumped out the water thus creating land that is below sea level. Of the dutch landmass approx one third is below sea level.

Answer 2

Because the Dutch needed more land for their growing population,they reclaimed land from the sea.At least 40 percent of the Netherlands was once under the sea. Land that is reclaimed by diking and is called a polder

Answer 3

A polder is an area of land that is usually on the land side of a dike. Eventually they become lower than the sea level on the other side of the dike. Polders are found all over the world. New Orleans in the United States is a famous polder.

Answer 4

mainly in the western part of the Netherlands

Answer 5

Flevoland, a province of the Netherlands.